The Twilight Hour: Celtic Visions from the Past

by Simon Marsden

The Celts believed that the period between day and night—the Twilight Hour—was a perilous time, when one’s earthly spirit might cross over into a supernatural world. In this gorgeous volume, Simon Marsden, a master of eerily beautiful photographs, has interspersed his own work with selections from Celtic writing as well as the imaginative works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, and others. There are also real-life contemporary ghost stories, reminding us of the dark terrors that still haunt the present.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction, Art, Paranormal

128 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2003

Reviews

[Lorraine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simon Mardsden’s The Twight Hour: Celtic Visions from Our Past is a beauteous book of ‘gothic images’ that celebrate The Celtic People through his photographs accompanied by passages, poetry, and descriptions by ‘literary Celtic geniuses’ such as Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Emily Bronté, W.B. Yeats among other ‘literary Celtic geniuses’. I am drawn to Sir Marsden’s work as I have quite an affinity for anything gothic. His photography is stunning and at the same time both stunning and horrific. The selections accompanying certain pictures is pure genius itself! The photography is done in black and white, and I feel will stop the reader in her/his tracks. The introduction alone provides the reader with fascinating details of the ancient Celts’ beliefs and culture. “These ancient beliefs still live on in the subconscious minds of the Celts, a forgotten wisdom that is more real to them than our materialistic existence, a knowledge that outlasts time.”
Simon Marsden, June 2003.

[Helena Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another Marsden favourite, hauntingly beautiful...

[J-me]

need it